Totality and infinity at 50
By: edited by Scott Davidson and Diane Perpich
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780820704524
Description: "Essays by 14 Levinas scholars provide a fresh acount of the argument and purpose of Emmanuel Levinas's major work, Totality and Infinity, drawing parallels between Levinas and other thinkers; considering Levinas's relationship to other disciplines such as nursing, psychotherapy, and law; and bringing this seminal text to bear on specific, concrete issues of present-day concern"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder / Silvia Benso; title: Unspoken Unity : I, Who Enjoy and Desire / Adriaan Peperzak and Stacy Bautista; title: "All that Is Holy Is Profaned" : Levinas and Marx on the Social Relation / Asher Horowitz; title: Emmanuel Levinas as a Philosopher of the Ordinary / Michael L. Morgan; title: The Fundamental Idea of Levinas's Philosophy / Georg W. Bertram; title: Don't Try This at Home : Levinas and Applied Ethics / Diane Perpich; title: Law, Ethics, and the Unbounded Duty of Care / Desmond Manderson; title: The Rights of the Other : Levinas and Human Rights / Scott Davidson; title: Ethics as Teaching : The Figure of the Master in Totality and Infinity / Joëlle Hansel; title: Turning toward the Other : Ethics, Fecundity, and the Primacy of Education / Claire Katz; title: Future Interva l: On Levinas and Glissant  / John Drabinski; title: Levinas's Ethical Critique of Levinasian Ethics / Robert Bernasconi.